Miriam L. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Miriam L., a twin, who was born in Poland in 1917. She recounts her family moving to ?o?dz?; being given to a nurse for three years when her mother was ill; her twin's death; one brother's emigration to Palestine in 1922; graduating from gymnasium; ghettoization; forced labor; the deaths of her siblings and parents; a German grabbing her nephew from her arms and crushing his head against a wall; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944, then to Christianstadt; slave labor digging ditches; a German guard providing her with extra food; a severe beating for helping other prisoners; a death march; remaining behind in a barn with her friend who had been shot; obtaining food from Germans; liberation by Soviet troops; a Jewish officer protecting them and bringing them to ?o?dz?; meeting her future husband; moving to Germany due to pogroms in Poland; marriage; several miscarriages; her son's birth; her husband's successful business; and emigration to the United States in 1949. Mrs. L. discusses disbelief that she survived such suffering; her inability to describe her experiences; a negative experience with American relatives; her brother's death in the British brigade; and family relations prior to the war.

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